Mail Notification v6

by Mottie

Description

This mod opens a popup to notify you if you have a new mail message. It was written for users who wish to hide their top menu bar (state bar/log in bar). Or if you just want a bigger message telling you that you have mail. I've set it up to open either a growl window (timed popup) or a facebox (popup you have to close).

For more information on the custom variables, please see this post.
To style the growl window (pictured above), use the "Growl Window Styling" Mod or refer to this post.
To style the Facebox popup window, please refer to this post.

Two problems... First, the number of pages in a particular threadare not wrapping! Someone started a "5 word epic" thread in ourforums. There are now 50 pages and they are all listed below thethread name, pushing the other colums off the edge of the screen. The page numbers need to wrap or truncate at a few pages and add in"next" and "last".

Second, is there any way to set a number of words in a post to counttowards activity points? We award medals based on activity pointsand this thread alone has added many, many posts to people's count dueto them needing to only post 5 words. I hate it when forums givepeople a high "post count" when they post responses like "yeah",etc. As superadmins, we need to be able to set the minimum numberof words in the post to count towards an activity point.

Please let me know if this can be done soon, Aaron, as this is a current problem on my site.

I disagree i like it just fine how it is. I have yet to have this problem in my guild. Maybe you cosmic should talk to your guild and tell them not to make one worded posts or not useful posts but this is not something that requred a system wide change. Most guilds dont have this problem im sure.

A fix for the wrapping is done and will go live with the next code push(probably tonight unless there's a hotfix that needs to go). Asfor the participation points, that's something that can be done, butI'd worry about people who are intentionally trying to "farm stars"doing something like...

Alrighty, aside from the push to fix the wrapping problem, there willbe a new option in the "Forum Display Options" to set the minimumnumber of characters in a post before awarding a participationpoint. Goes live tonight.

As for the one/two word posts getting a participation point.. Ican see that there might be a need to have it as an option to setsomething up so you can adjust it. Thanks again Aaron forthat.

What I wanted to say here is this though. Don't be too rough onpeople when setting those limits. At least they are visiting theforums and at least they are taking the time to click reply. There are many many guilds that have problems getting even 1/2 of theirmembers to regularly visit their sites..much less click and type evenone word. So.. be sure to balance the requirements forgetting participation with the fact that people are actually postingsomething. No one likes a post-count-inflating member, butsometimes a few words is the only reply needed to give.

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